Can football be saved? If so, from what – or whom? And what, ultimately, will lead to its salvation?
These are the central questions driving a new documentary titled, Super League: The War For Football, that launched this past weekend: a series delving into the four crucial days in 2021 that saw the rapid rise and fall of the European Super League, a breakaway competition made up of Europe's biggest clubs that threatened to tear the game apart across the continent.
Sports governance and economics may not be the most gripping subjects for the average documentary-viewer, but by putting human faces to the names and suits – including some of football's most influential figures on both sides of the divide – the series flays open the lies, deception, backstabbing, and struggles for power that often take place within sport's shadowy boardrooms.
